Dell Raises the Bar For Performance and Management With All-New Line-Up Of PowerEdge Servers

Dell Press Release 02/08/04

Dell has aggressively integrated the latest technologies and standards across its line of PowerEdge servers to provide the most complete products and services for customers' core applications at the best value in the industry.

The dual-processor PowerEdge 1800, 1850, 2800, 2850 servers and Open Manage 4 systems management software are the foundation of Dell's vision for the scalable enterprise, providing customers with powerful building blocks for consolidation, databases, enterprise applications and high-performance computing.

These servers feature Intel Xeon processors with Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) and will deliver better performance for 32-bit applications that are standard in customers' IT operations today, as well as 64-bit applications that will require more memory. The new standards in PowerEdge servers and Dell OpenManage Systems Management software make them easier to update and fix from remote locations; common systems design and tools in the next generation servers give customers unprecedented stability and consistency across Dell platforms.

Two-processor capacity server unit shipments are expected to account for more than 6.2 million units in 2008, nearly double the 3.5 millions units shipped in 2003, according to industry analyst firm, IDC. Single and dual processor capacity servers also represented 91 percent of all server unit shipments in 2003, according to the same research.

"Standardized Dell systems are the backbone of customers' IT infrastructure," said Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of Dell's Product Group. "The ability to now run applications that require larger memory on these systems will increase their confidence to unplug proprietary UNIX servers and deploy Dell."

Customers like NASDAQ are endorsing the new platform's ability to run their existing business applications with the latest technologies, improved manageability and superb scalability.

"This generation of Dell servers has eliminated deployment barriers based on memory requirements for our most important applications and provides lots of room to grow," said Steve Randich, CIO and executive vice president of The NASDAQ Stock Market. "It is clear that Dell also is committed to helping us manage these servers more easily with new standards and greater integration with other management tools we already use."

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